When was the last time you drove out of town?
Probably not since my road trip with my son to Canberra in January. See blog entry here. This is what I said then:
What a great kids holiday destination Canberra is! Both my husband and I used to live in Canberra (it was where we met and fell in lerv) and didn't like it much then at all. Once the initial excitement at leaving and moving to exciting Sydney had worn off, I kept experiencing a yearning to go back and visit. In 2006, I took both kids there for a long weekend. We met my brother there and had a great time. This time I just took my son and met up with another friend and her two young sons for a three day 'boyfest'. It was great! There were so many free or cheap things to do with kids and being January, the whole of Canberra was like a ghost town so it was even easier than usual to get around. We re-visited the National Museum on Lake Burley Griffin (this was a highlight last time) and Questacon and also went to the Botanic Gardens (where we came upon a huge water dragon sunning itself on a rock), the Black Mountain Tower and the War Memorial. We also found a few good playgrounds (esp recommend John Knight Park at Belconnen) and went swimming a few times (including once at Dickson Pool). Mostly cooked our own meals but did have one (fairly unmemorable) dinner out at the Dickson 'Tradies' - main attraction of that was the kids could sit and eat their meal in a train carriage - unfortunately this was the best thing about eating at this place!
This is a photo of my son on a previous trip to the National Museum:
I have been out of town a few times since then but by air rather than by road and once was a work trip. I have got very lazy about weekends away this year. It is a bit hard to face with us both working full time, ie, weekends seem so much like 'catch up' time. I also hate the thought of getting home with a whole pile of washing on Sunday night and no meals prepared and then feeling behind all week. I feel like I need to take time off work just to make up for being away on the weekend. It is the same this week, ie, have been late in both yesterday and today. This morning, I prepared and put the ingredients for dinner into the slow cooker so I don't have to cook from scratch when I get home from work at 6pm or so. Normally I would have done all this on the weekend.
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